So apparently Americas National Anthem is racist?

[Mac1958]

The attempt to wipe out all American public traditions continues. Any excuse will do, because we're the bad guy.

Still pouting about Appomattox are you?

Just making an observation of the obvious.
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[ThatDude30]

Here's one of the lines they have a problem with:

"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:"

How, where ,and why do they think that is even being 1 bit racist? No refuge(safe place) could save the hireling(A person who works purely for material reward- probably mercenaries) and slave(There was once slaves in a point of time-and whatever is going on that the song is referring to is stating there was no safe place for anyone) from terror of flight( It probably wasn't a peaceful calm experience- probably gun fire bombs exploding people screaming dying it probably was scary even for the people fleeing- hireling and slave and even soldiers and civilians) or the gloom(darkness- or a state of depression or despondency) of the grave.

So pretty much the song is saying that the war instilled fear within them that the only 2 choices were to either run or fight for their life and no matter the choice they picked there was no where safe they could go so whether they ran or fought they chanced death.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Here's one of the lines they have a problem with:

"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:"

This is NOT talking about our stupid Africans.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Slaves were signing up with the British to fight against the US because the British promised them their freedom (in Canada).

Sorry. NO.

"Slaves" (not ignorant Africans), were forced to fight with the British, BY THE BRITISH.

The "hireling" were MERCENARIES.

Stupid Africans don't like to remember that MANY of our white ancestors came here a virtual slaves.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Here's one of the lines they have a problem with:

"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:"

When is the last time one of those morons sang the verse if ever? Ask them what does the verse even mean? Instead of these idiots worrying about slavery 150 years ago they should try to stop the slave trade going on TODAY in Africa.

 

[Mac1958]

Here's one of the lines they have a problem with:

"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:"

When is the last time one of those morons sang the verse if ever? What does the verse even mean? Instead of these idiots worrying about slavery 150 years ago they should try to stop the slave trade going on TODAY in Africa.

This isn't about having a legitimate reason to scream RACISM. This is about control and enabling as much hatred of the country as possible.

This is just a piece of that.
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[JQPublic1]

Once we get rid of the racist Anthem, let's get rid of the racist flag.

Here's a suggestion on a replacement:
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Technically, American Apartheid ended in 1954. That was 4 years before Alaska and Hawaii were added to the Union which meant a new flag had to be made with 50 starts instead of 48... there might have been one with 49 starts briefly...but in any event the old racist 48 star flag was retired. The one we have to day is associated with all the progress minorities and women have made since 1954.

 

[OldLady]

Slaves were signing up with the British to fight against the US because the British promised them their freedom (in Canada).

Sorry. NO.

"Slaves" (not ignorant Africans), were forced to fight with the British, BY THE BRITISH.

The "hireling" were MERCENARIES.

Stupid Africans don't like to remember that MANY of our white ancestors came here a virtual slaves.

I was right--they were promised freedom by the British, but you were right--it was only rebel owned slaves given that offer.
Those who sided with the British were told, more or less, that they were manumitted and would be given land and self-government. They had a better hope for freedom with the British than they had with Americans. But the British found it easier to promise liberty and land than to provide them. Slaves who departed with the redcoats when the conflict was over were in their new lands—Canada, England, Australia, and Sierra Leone—still treated much as they had been before.

The first wholesale promise from the British of freedom to slaves came just as the war was starting, in November 1775. The last royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, having fled Williamsburg for his safety first to HMS Fowey and then to HMSWilliam, offered freedom to slaves and indentured servants "able and willing to bear arms" for the British. There was, however, a catch.

Dunmore's proclamation applied to slaves owned by rebels, not to slaves held by loyalists. His offer, the realization of an oft-repeated threat, was intended as much to terrify and punish rebels, and to furnish himself with more troops, as to help the slaves. Though slavery had been limited in England three years before—the Court of Kings Bench ruled in 1772 that slaves could not be taken out of the realm for sale—it was still legal and would be until 1834. Nevertheless, the rumor spread in the colonies that slaves had been freed in Britain, and it proved a powerful magnet for bondsmen.
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